Habib Named 2017 CyLab Presidential Fellow

CyLab is a university-wide initiative founded in 2003 to establish public-private partnerships to develop new technologies for measurable, secure, available, trustworthy, and sustainable computing and communications system. A decade later, CyLab is one of the largest university-based cybersecurity research and education centers in the United States.

The CyLab Presidential Fellowships, established in 2016, are awarded to high-achieving exemplary graduate students researching topics around security and privacy. Each fellowship covers one year of tuition.

“The purpose of this research is to understand the steps people take to protect their online privacy and security in their daily lives through analyzing data collected over a period of three years from hundreds of Windows home users.